FAQ
My car has a USB interface that syncs with my iPod, that I use to play tunes while I drive. Does this device work using that sort of thing?
If I get your right, your car basically read everything from the device and the car is able to control the player. Honestly, I don’t think this is capable to do such a thing, but if your car can read out the files from for example a USB stick, this can also work like that. Or another method can play music via AUX, but then you can’t control the music from your car, only from the player (as a typical method but not the most comfortable one)
How can one transfer files from iTunes on an iMac onto this device? My iPod get the entire library transferred automatically. Thank you!
I don’t think you can do such a thing – by that I mean sync. The “easiest” method is to simply plug this onto your iMac (it should detect as a storage device) on your iTunes press right click on the Album you want to transfer and select -> (reveal file location in Finder – or something like that) Drag and drop the folder onto the player, and you are good to go.
Is the included cable an otg cable?
Yes it is
i have a question: if i play a song from the card and turn off the player when i turn it on it plays from where i was listening the last song?
I don’t think there’s even one player who does that. If you send it to sleep obviously it continues where you left, but switching completely off means you start from the main menu when power it back on. Anyway, I just tested it for you to be 100% sure. 🙂
Is it possible to navigate on the directory of the storage card?
Yes, simply use the “browse” menu.
How do you download your non-mp3 files? And I’m not sure if this is a thing, but is there a way to put a DAC to my phone and play hi quality music from spotify?
D Lossless files are quite popular in many online music stores, or there are dark sides of the internet where you can get those, but that is obviously piracy so can’t help with that one. 🙂
About your DAC question, there is a DAC (or several DACs) in every single digital audio player (phone in this case).
What it does it CONVERTS your DIGITAL signal to ANALOG signal (Digital-to-Analog Converter – DAC). Since human hearing is analog, we have to convert it somehow, and this is where DAC chip(s) comes in the picture. 🙂 The quality and capabilities mostly depend on what type of chip you have in your device. These capabilities are like sampling rate, max channels, dynamic range and so on. If you are not satisfied with your phones DAC you can bypass it with external devices like FiiO Q1 Mark II. Hope this helps.
For the Spotify question. The bottleneck will be Spotify streaming bitrate and compression. Yet premium users can stream in 320kbps, I’m pretty sure those are compressed lossy files (mp3 maybe – I don’t know), so no matter what you add to your system it won’t affect much.
Is the device macbook compatible and, similarly, are you able to transfer playlists across? This looks ideal for my needs (gym/exercise), but only if I can actually get music/playlists onto it!
Yes, it is compatible with both PC or MAC. If you connect it to a mac, the storage shows up like any other external storage and can manually edit anything on it.
Fiio m3k vs fiio x1 2nd gen which one is better?
Different market and a different target. M3K got DSD support, X1 got Bluetooth. M3K got USB DAC feature, X1 doesn’t. The DAC is also better and newer in the M3K than the X1 II gen got. M3K seems a better deal, but if you need Bluetooth option X1 still a good choice.
Can you watch videos like movies using this mp3?
No it cant. It is purely an Audio player.
Fiio m3k with Xiaomi Hydrid Pro HD, is this a good combo?
Read many good things about the Hybrid Pro, so yeah, it can be a decent mix.
I have seen 3 categories for cuality audio; SQ HR and DSD. For a song to be HR in this fiio m3k, does it have to be 24 bit/44 khz or at least 24 bit/96khz. Also for the category of SQ; mp3 320 kbps or 16 bit/44.?
MP3 / 303 kbps (ABR) / 44100 Hz / 16bit – No badge display (seems SQ badge needs at least over 320 kbps)
FLAC / 616 kbps (ABR) / 44100 Hz / 16bit – SQ badge
FLAC / 675 kbps (ABR) / 44100 Hz / 16 bit- SQ badge
FLAC / 2481 kbps / 96000 Hz / 24 bit – HR badge
FLAC / 613 kbps / 44100 Hz / 16 bit – SQ badge
FLAC / 1241 kbps / 44100 Hz / 24 bit – SQ badge (seems needs to be 96KHz to claim as HR)
Does the player has blue-tooth to play on Bose speaker?
Sadly no Bluetooth. The FiiO M7 is a slightly better player with Bluetooth option as well, with several useful protocols.
Could you tell me what languages he has?
Chinese/English/French/German/Japanese/Korean/Russian/Spanish/Italian/Hindi
Fiio M3K or the xduo x3 gen 2 ?
xDuoo X3 II can playback DSD128 files. The UI on the FiiO is much better, but xDuoo X3 II is more advanced in terms of music playback capabilities. If you plan to play MP3/FLAC files go with the cheaper one since both are decent with lossy files, but xDuoo has simply a better playback option, but with an ugly UI.
Is there USB-C ?
No USB-C.
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Do the usb dac works on linux / android phone ?
I didn’t test with Linux/Android, so I can’t 100% guarantee that, but most probably it should, USB Audio is pretty much standard now
Does this player support Spotify and/or Tidal?
of course no
This or the Shanling M0 or the Hidizs Ap60 II??
it depends on your sonic preferences and your need of features like bluetooth
sonically, Hidizs is better, but that’s my opinion, there are people who prefer M0, but for me it sounds flat and artificial
Fiio M3K or X1 II?the diference of sound is high?
they have different output power first of all, X1-2 is more powerful. so for power-hungry headphones it will be betteron normal headphones and IEMs it depends on your preferences, M3K will be better if you’d like neutral sound, X1-2 — is a bit warmer and bassy
X3 III or M3k?
if you need more power or want more detailed and a bit brighter signature, then X3-3, if you need more battery life time and more “balanced” sig — M3K
How does this compare to the x1 series?
Max Isenberg but less bassy and more neutral
Some user reviews indicate that they can not see all the music they transfer to the micro sd. For example one of 512gb with 10,000 songs and only 2,500 songs can be seen. Is it a limit that the player has?
sorry, I don’t have big SD cards, so I can’t tell for sure. my 64 Gb with about 2K songs works OK, and bigger cards are not convenient for me, navigation with 10K songs without sensor screen looks like a huge pain in the … for me (it’s my subjective opinion)
anyway, there definitely can be some limit, but it’s a question to be addressed to FiiO’s support
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